Vanessa Lillie

Bestselling Suspense Author

VANESSA LILLIE is the author of the USA Today bestselling suspense novel, Blood Sisters, which was a Target Book Club pick and GMA Book Club Buzz Pick as well as named one of the best mystery novel in 2023 by the Washington Post and Amazon. Her other bestselling thrillers are Little Voices, For the Best and she’s the coauthor of the Young Rich Widows series. 

Vanessa has fifteen years of marketing and communications experience and enjoys organizing book events in and around Providence, RI. Originally from Oklahoma, she is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation tribe. She loves connecting with readers for her Instagram Live show with crime fiction authors!

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BLOOD SISTERS

• Target Book Club November pick

“Blood Sisters is about Syd and Emma Lou, as well as the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women whose cases are never solved, if they’re investigated at all.” —New York Times
“Combines Cherokee history and legend with contemporary drug and land problems in a gripping story of missing Indigenous women. Readers looking for LGBTQIA+ and Two-Spirit characters will hope for more about Syd Walker.”
—Library Journal (starred)
“This suspenseful mystery will not only captivate you, but it may just teach you something about Cherokee history, land rights and the plague of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Including queer and Two-Spirit characters, Blood Sisters is a meaningful and compelling thriller.”
—Ms. Magazine
“Lillie paints the beautiful yet bleak landscape with a fine brush. Readers who enjoy strong voices will be pulled in by the characters, while those who are drawn to setting will feel as if they are in Picher.”
—Booklist
"Just a few pages in and this novel is roaring with mystery, danger, anguish and regret... A crime novel's journey often runs toward escapism, but the best, like Blood Sisters, lead us on a path toward knowledge and discovery.
—Minneapolis Star Tribune

For The Best

"...a layered, thought-provoking exploration of self-destructive impulses and the crushing weight of old secrets... this is one you definitely don’t want to miss!.” —Kathleen Barber, author of Follow Me

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Little Voices

“Fast paced and psychologically complex, this debut mystery has plenty of twists and turns that will appeal to fans of Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins, and Megan Abbott.” —Library Journal (starred review)

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Young Rich Widows

An Audible original by Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan and Vanessa Lillie. When four partners of a prominent law firm are killed in a plane crash, their widows must uncover the truth...

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